| Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) are some compulsory or voluntary technical measures that a country or a regional organization adopts for the purposes of maintaining the security of a country or region, safeguarding human security and health, protecting the life and health of plants and animals, protecting environment, preventing cheating behavior, guaranteeing product quality and so on. The TBT will become one of chief obstacles to our country's exports in the 21st century. China has already joined the World Trade Organization, which means that Chinese enterprises have involved in the omni-directional market competition; this was not only an opportunity but also a stern challenge. At present the TBT taken by the developed countries as a more powerful method and a higher form to implement trade protectionism has seriously affected our country's foreign trade development. How to deal with the technical barrier to trade has become one of the urgent problems to be solved in our international trade.Recently, Chinese export markets have mainly pooled in the three biggest trade partners such as Japan, America and Europe where the TBT are quite serious, therefore understanding their TBT characteristics and handling it with pertinence are supposed to be very important. In the process of melting into the international economy, China as the biggest developing country in the world should deal with TBT more actively not only by counter-attacking them with the aid of the legitimate weapon but also by establishing China's own technical standard system in full use of it's rationality. And taking this as a turning point, we should also further impel technical development and get accordance with the international standards in order to make our foreign trade work better and realize sustainable development other than falling into the malignant competition of trade protection.
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